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Koreas To Organize Unified Teams In Four Sports At Tokyo 2020

South Korea and North Korea will organize unified teams in four sports at Tokyo 2020, officials announced Friday, according to YONHAP. After meeting with IOC President Thomas Bach, representatives from the Koreas "agreed to form joint teams in women’s basketball, women’s field hockey, rowing and judo" for Tokyo 2020. It will be the first Summer Olympics in which the Koreas will have unified teams should those teams qualify for the competition. Bach said, "The discussions at the working meeting today are one further step showing how sport can once more make a contribution to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the world." The IOC said in a statement that there are "ongoing talks" between the two Korean Olympic committees and their governments on unified teams in other sports (YONHAP, 2/15). YONHAP reported Bach said that he "welcomes the joint South Korean-North Korean bid" to host the 2032 Summer Games. Bach said that he saw an "impressive presentation" about the joint Korean effort to organize the 2032 Olympics, calling it a "historic initiative" (YONHAP, 2/15).

SPARING NO EXPENSE: KYODO reported Tokyo 2020 organizers on Friday "increased the budget for the opening and closing ceremonies" roughly 43% to 13B yen ($118M). The organizing committee's board of directors determined the 9.1B yen ($82.4M) rough estimate generated at the time of Tokyo's bid "would not be enough" (KYODO, 2/15).

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